Man, those 50s are gonna feel like beach weather.
Posted on 02/07/2014 12:31:57 PM PST by greeneyes
CONGRATULATIONS AFRAID FOR THE REPUBLIC 55 YEARS OF MARRIED BLISS
“Bacillus thuringiensis,” for natural control of caterpillars.”
I’ll find this and read about it, as in how to do it.
“Must’ve gotten funny grin thinking about the reaction that would have been elicited from Nuclear Marcella because she hurried on down the aisle and disappeared (heh).”
Murdering squirrels need to die in the most inhumane way. I have to spend money to keep those freaking squirrels away from my plants. I don’t have acres of plants to donate some to them - each plant I have is valuable since I can’t have huge numbers of plants. Die, squirrel, die!
“From the looks of those veg/temps there are things you could grow, unprotected, all winter long. Especially salad greens and the like. With a tomato plant inside under some lights you could have your own fresh salads.”
I’ll look at that list carefully. I’d really like lettuce in the winter. There is not much light inside my house but maybe a tomato plant by itself so I could raise the grow lamp high enough as it grew, might work - or not. Won’t know until I try that next winter.
Look at some of the teeny tiny tomato plants. Some of them only get 18” tall or maybe not even that.
I’ve grown a variety (Red Robin IIRC?) that was totally happy in a 12” pot. Got a handful of cherry sized tomatoes every few days. There are also container happy bell pepper plants. Pompeii and Fruit Basket are a couple that I’ve grown. Also Albino Bullnose (Baker Creek) is teeny. I’ve grown that variety in my garden before and the stems of the 24” max plants were loaded with peppers just like a brussels sprout plant.
http://www.vegetablegardener.com/item/13080/tiny-tomatoes-for-indoor-gardening
http://www.tomatodirt.com/growing-tomatoes-in-pots-small-containers.html
http://www.ehow.com/list_7224264_indoor-tomato-varieties.html
http://www.smartgardener.com/plants/2839-peppers-albino-bullnose/overview
http://homeguides.sfgate.com/grow-fruit-basket-peppers-24483.html
Grow a patch of green onions in the back yard and you’ll be good to go with fresh salad fixins.
>>Is it a dust or more like actual dirt?>>>
Yes! LOL
It is a fine grained silica dust that is naturally occurring, composed of the shells of microscopic sea animals. The shells are sharp, and kill bugs via the Death Of Ten Thousand Cuts. Harmless to humans, as they are too small to cut our skin.
Food grade can even be safely taken internally to do a job on parasites.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diatomaceous_earth
I have Sweet Million Hybrid tomato to plant in March that is small for a container, but those you list are a smaller plant I think. The Small Fry tomato on one of your links, looks very good as it does give more than one crop even though it is determinate. I will get that one for sure to try for winter and probably get others you have on that list. I’ve found that limiting myself to one variety isn’t a good thing to do since I don’t know for sure what grows best here but that wouldn’t apply to those grown indoors. I will surely get some of those for next winter.
I’ll copy all those links and study them. As for onions, I’m counting on the Walking Onions to provide me with onions. I have several other type onion plants growing fairly tall now from seed. Then there is the one I haven’t planted yet that will produce late in the fall and those keep for 6-8 weeks after picking without going bad. I really want those to grow.
If I could have lettuce and tomato and onion in the winter, I would pat myself on the back for being a real gardener - defying the cold of winter with fresh veggies.
Well, it looks like I have to buy new tomato seed now due to you - darn. :o)
Marcella
I will get that earth and make sure it is food grade. Thanks so much for the help,
Marcella
LOL.
Other plants you might want to consider (tomatoes) are the new dwarf indeterminate ones.
Here:
http://heritagetomatoseed.com/category/heirloom-and-op-tomato-seeds/dwarf-tomato-project/
If you’ve got a sunny window or enclosed porch those might be just the thing.
I’m pinging wkwe because IIRC he’s dealt with those before. I grew out the Rosella Purple one, the Summertime Green and a determinant one called:
http://njaes.rutgers.edu/tomato-varieties/variety.asp?Red+House+Free+Standing
That last one was like a cute little tomato tree. The stem was huge. It didn’t need any staking but I staked it anyways. It got about 2.5’ tall and had a huge number of tomatoes (regular slicing size) for a small plant.
The one on the end looks like somebody’s pantyhose.
I see many tiny green spots on the top of the tobacco cups. Maybe this time I didn’t kill them.
Yeppers...I’ve grown most of them...I’m a BIG FAN of the Iditarod Red plants...lots of golfball-sized tasty red tomatoes. Grown it the last two years, and will grow it again this year, unless neighbors shoot me down.
Well, I tried the squash dumplings today, not worth the work. However, I also tried mixing some squash right into the noodle dough, and that was pretty good. The noodles are drying now.
(I also went online and figured out what I’d been doing wrong with my pasta machine. Every time I had tried to use it the noodles came out wrinkly and torn, but this time they came out nice and smooth. Hurray!)
I was hoping to save the seeds from those squash to sell, but every single seed was sprouting inside the squash! Good thing a got seeds from 2 already.
Usually I do my big seed inventory in December, and order seeds in January. This year I’ve been too busy at work to do my big inventory, and I’m still working on my list of what to order. For a while at least I’ll have Mondays to myself to work on stuff. I convinced my boss to let me trade Mondays for Saturdays because of how hard it is for me to deal with the background noise during the week. I have hyperacusis, and I’m supposed to have a special headset to help with that, but the order is taking forever to get through all the red tape. 4 months and counting!
But, with no family at home on Mondays I can actually get stuff accomplished now. Such as making noodles out of my home-grown squash :)
Spaghetti Squash makes a great bread.
I make kimchee all the time myself! :) The homemade kimchee is so much better than store bought.
One of the advantages to being a single guy is that I don't have to put up with pantyhose hanging in the house. The disadvantage is that when I have to strain paint or motor oil, there's never any pantyhose around. ;)
/johnny
After Wed, our temps are going to be in the high 40s or better at night for at least a week. Lots of stuff inside on the sunshelves will be going outside into the cold frame.
/johnny
Don’t you have a daughter? Does she wear pantyhose; hint, hint . . . Smile!
I’ve never had kimchee. Is that something I might like at first try, or is it an acquired taste? I know that is a relative thing, but...
I have had a couple of Korean dishes that were authentic(as in brought here by Koreans from the homeland) but kimchee was not on the menu that night.
I am not aware of an asian market anywhere around here, so I would have a long drive into that Megatroplis south of here.
Man, those 50s are gonna feel like beach weather.
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